Accession No

Z 46225.105 B


Description

Two fragments of bone or antler, one subcuboid and the other flat and subrectangular, broken at both ends.


Place

Arctic; Greenland; Avannaata; Illorsuit Island [Ubekendt Island]


Period

Inuit


Source

Feachem, Richard William de Fécamp [excavator and donor]; Carmichael, Donald M. [donor]; 1938 Cambridge West Greenland Expedition


Department

Arch


Reference Numbers

Z 46225.105 B


Cultural Affliation


Material

?Bone; ?Antler


Local Term


Measurements


Events

Description (Physical description)
Description for Z 46225.105 [A-D]: 'Bone - Various sizes; Fragment'.
Event Date
Author: maa


Context (Field collection)
Excavated in July or August by Richard Feachem during the 1938 Cambridge West Greenland Expedition, organised by Donald Carmichael. See archive for excavation notebooks, including sketches and object lists (XA/1/25/5 and XA/1/33).
Event Date 7/1938
Author: maa


Context (References)
Drever, H.I. (1939). ‘The Cambridge expedition to West Greenland, 1938’. The Geographical Journal, vol. 94(5). pp 388-401
Event Date 1939
Author: Esther Laver


Context (Amendments / updates)
This collection was tentatively entered as being collected by James Mann Wordie in 1938 but has now been identified as from the excavations undertaken by Richard Feachem during the 1938 Cambridge West Greenland Expedition. Feachem excavated several sites on Illorsuit [Ubekendt] Island, including Sarqa, Naqerdloq, Kussininguaq and Igdlorssuit, which are recorded in his excavation notebooks (XA/1/25/5 and XA/1/33). More work is required in order to identify which of these sites this object comes from.
Event Date 26/9/2024
Author: Esther Laver


Description (Physical description)
Two fragments of bone or antler, one subcuboid and the other flat and subrectangular, broken at both ends.
Event Date 27/9/2024
Author: Esther Laver


FM:319575

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